Title
An adjustable-purpose image watermarking technique by particle swarm optimization.
Abstract
Imperceptibility, security, capacity, and robustness are among many aspects of image watermarking design. An ideal watermarking system should embed a large amount of information perfectly securely, but with no visible degradation to the host image. Many researchers have geared efforts towards developing specific techniques for variant applications. In this paper, we propose an adjustable-purpose, reversible and fragile watermarking scheme for image watermarking by particle swarm optimization (PSO). In general, given any host image and watermark, our scheme can provide an optimal watermarking solution. First, the content of a host image is analyzed to extract significant regions of interest (ROIs) automatically. The remaining regions of non-interest (RONIs) are collated for embedding watermarks by different amounts of bits determined by PSO to achieve optimal watermarking. The parameters can be adjusted relying upon user’s watermarking purposes. Experimental results show that the proposed technique has accomplished higher capacity and higher PSNR (peak signal-to-noise ratio) watermarking.
Year
DOI
Venue
2018
https://doi.org/10.1007/s11042-017-4367-9
Multimedia Tools Appl.
Keywords
Field
DocType
Image watermarking,ROI,Authentication,SVD,PSO,Data hiding
Particle swarm optimization,Computer vision,Singular value decomposition,Digital watermarking,Embedding,Authentication,Pattern recognition,Computer science,Information hiding,Robustness (computer science),Watermark,Artificial intelligence
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
77
2
1380-7501
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
2
0.37
27
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Frank Y. Shih1110389.56
Xin Zhong2114.69
I-Cheng Chang3252.76
Shin'ichi Satoh42093277.41